Science Content: vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) shown to attack brain cancer cells
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From the article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20363/
Pretty spiffy. Granted, it has hitches and gotchas that are possible but this is a pretty big deal in cancer research I think.
...researchers at Yale University have found that a virus that's in the same family as rabies effectively kills an aggressive form of human brain cancer in mice. Using time-lapse laser imaging, the team watched vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) rapidly home in on brain tumors, selectively killing cancerous cells in its path, while leaving healthy tissue intact. What's more, Anthony Van den Pol, lead researcher and professor of neurosurgery and neurobiology at Yale, says that VSV is able to self-replicate and produce secondary lines of defense.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20363/
Pretty spiffy. Granted, it has hitches and gotchas that are possible but this is a pretty big deal in cancer research I think.
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